Bibliograph

The end of ownership, personal property in the digital economy, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz

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The end of ownership, personal property in the digital economy, Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The end of ownership

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz

Sub title

personal property in the digital economy

Summary

If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the ebooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that you don't own those purchases, you merely license them. That means your ebook vendor can delete the book from your device without warning or explanation -- as Amazon deleted Orwell's 1984 from the Kindles of surprised readers several years ago

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